"Change How Washington Works"

The man who is President Obama's newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he
approved or funded with taxpayers' money, a Daily News probe found.

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important
zoning changes, records show.

Most donations were organized and well-timed.

Even more corrupt than Bush was.

Welcome to The Greater Depression folks.

Until there is accountability, which this administration absolutely refuses to enforce, there will be no turn in the economy or the markets.

We were promised that which our new Presidunnit has no intention of delivering now, and never did.

It as all just a continuation of "the big lie" of the past decade.

Enjoy it when you're unemployed, homeless and hungry folks, and remember who's responsible.

"AIG will also give the U.S. Federal Reserve a preferred interest in its American Life Insurance Co (Alico), which generates more than half of
its revenue from Japan, and Hong Kong-based life insurance group American International Assurance Co (AIA) in return for reducing its debt, they
said."

The Federal Reserve does not have the legal authority to take ownership stakes in anything.

This is what we get for not raising unholy hell when Bear Stearns' "Maiden Lane" was put in place, or when AIG's CDOs and CDS were taken by The
Fed.

Now we're rising to open and flagrant flouting of the law.

The Fed, for those who are uninformed, is empowered to loan (under unusual and exigent circumstances) anyone money against collateral.

However, they are not empowered to own anything except debt instruments backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Federal
Government.

That they would take an equity stake in a firm based in Hong Kong is beyond outrageous.

Folks, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that our financial system or capital markets will stabilize until "The Bezzle" is forced from our
markets.

Make no mistake - it will be forced out.

The only question that remains is whether it will be forced out as a consequence of regulatory action or mass bankruptcy, with unemployment reaching
30% and possibly beyond, 20% of the S&P 500 bankrupt and the SPX trading at 210.

We are headed directly to at least the mid 400s on the S&P and 4,000 on the DOW unless this idiocy is stopped here and now, and I have absolutely no
belief that our government has any interest whatsoever in stopping it.

So we may be witnessing the final death throes of the great American Dream. Some day I may be telling my grand kids about the old free America over a
cup of government issued coffee missing my cigarettes from when they were still legal, doing so because I do not wish to watch government controlled
television content or read the Fed daily newspaper.
For those of us such as myself that cringe over such thoughts we better figure out how to turn our current direction around and get back to real
American fundementals and break the chain of power from the Bushes, the Obamas, the Kennedy's and the Rockerfellers. This is OUR country dammit!.

I think it goes further than that TT. I think we're witnessing the end of the United States proper as we know it. Sadly, each and everyday news
such as this gets reported, it becomes increasingly obvious that this is where we are headed.

The best one can hope for is a 'reboot' of the system and change back into a Constitutional Republic form of government. Maybe if we are lucky, a
simple reversion back to nation states. At this point, I think it's doubtful.

I think it's going full blown towards a reformat and I don't think anyone wants to discuss the potential outcome of that.

Originally posted by redhatty
Amaterasu, human beings for some unknown reason will not choose what is the best course for everyone. Somehow, someway, we simply were wired wrong.

I beg to differ. We Human Hearted are beset with corporate manipulation that sickens us, robs us of motivation (fluoride), and pulls us into poor
behaviors because we are desperate, all the while being blamed for all the worse behavior the Lizard Hearted of this world pertetrate.

As such, doped and duped, we find it difficult to actually do something.

However, the beauty of my plan, the truly awesomeness of it is that no routines need be broken for most, and those in a position to do something can
do it (and probably will want to). But to see where I'm going with this...read my book.

"Liberal media outlets are doing their best to boost former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, President Obama's third pick for the beleaguered Commerce
Secretary job. "Obama's New Commerce Pick Has Clean Reputation," declared National Public Radio's Tom Banse. The Democrat possesses "a largely
scandal-free resume" reported The New York Times. He is a "safe choice," the Washington Post asserted, because of his "strait-laced reputation."

The left-leaning Seattle Weekly newspaper notes that Locke presided over a $3.2 billion tax break for Boeing while "never disclosing he paid $715,000
to -- and relied on the advice of -- Boeing's own private consultant and outside auditor." Then there's the tainted matter of Locke's "favors for
his brother-in-law (who lived in the governor's mansion), including a tax break for his relative's company, personal intervention in a company
dispute, and Locke's signature on a federal loan application for the company." Locke's laces ain't so straight."

One reason public schools get away with educational failure, year after year, is because they are run by left-leaning politicians and school officials
who passionately believe that government should control your children's mind, values, and future. As the great English writer C. S. Lewis wrote, "Of
all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Those who torment us for our own good will
torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Public-school socialist true-believers often fall into this category --- for over a 150 years, education "progressive" so-called experts have been
tormenting our children with public schools, allegedly for our children's benefit. Like all fascist, socialist, or communist true-believers, these
people absolutely believe that they know what is best for your children, and seek to ram their beliefs down parents' throats.

From the 1840s to the 1930s, public-school "progressive" activists like Horace Mann and John Dewey worked to create a public-school system like the
one they admired in Prussia (Germany). Mann and Dewey considered public education a religion, with a holy mission to mold children and society. Simply
teaching children to read, write, and do math was too commonplace a goal for them. Mann and Dewey wanted the schools to have total control over
children's lives. This meant removing parents' influence over their children. Mann put it this way: "We who are engaged in the sacred cause of
education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."

Dewey had a socialist utopian vision for America and he wanted the common schools to achieve his vision. To create a government-dominated socialist
America, public schools had to mold generations of children into the habit of obedience. In his "Pedagogic Creed" of 1897, Dewey wrote, "Every
teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. .
."

By the early twentieth century, public schools had expanded their functions into areas undreamed of in the 1850s. Schools took on the role of social
agencies, with nurses, social centers, playgrounds, school showers, kindergartens, and "Americanization" programs for immigrants. Public schools
became a major agency for social control.

Unfortunately, today's public schools are fulfilling Mann's and Dewey's "government- knows-best" vision with a vengeance. There is hardly any
area of children's lives that school authorities now don't push to control. Politicians and public-school apologists in many states are now pushing
programs that would make kindergarten compulsory. Yes, they now want to literally take 3 and 4-year old children from their mother's arms and stick
them in public-school nursery-classrooms.

Public schools also now spend billions of dollars for psychological counseling, school-lunch programs, mandatory drug-testing, parent welfare-outreach
programs, special-education classes, bilingual classes, early-childhood programs, drug and sex education classes, as well as programs for millions of
"at-risk" or "special-needs" children.

This government-knows-best philosophy is the deepest reason why public schools get away with educational murder and can never be fixed. Public-school
apologists believe that government bureaucrats and school authorities should dictate your children's education and the values they are taught. By
implication, they believe that parents are an annoyance at best. More often, they believe that parents are a danger to their children's "proper"
education and the values children "ought" to be taught by government employees.

To turn your children into dumbed-down, obedient little citizens and multiculturalist "citizens of the world," public-school authorities have to
keep an iron grip on your children's minds and values. That is why public-school true believers will never voluntarily give up control over our
children. They see themselves as noble idealists who know what is "best" for your children. That is why these socialist-fascist-minded "idealists"
have contempt for your parental rights.

In the recent Congressional elections, the police-state chickens are coming home to roost. The majority of 18 to 25 year-olds, graduates of our
socialist-indoctrinating public schools, voted for Democrats. These are the children who spent 12 years in public schools that systematically insult
traditional American ideals and values. These are the schools that preach the multicultural trash that all cultures' values are "equal," and that
American values of individual rights, economic liberty, and limited government are "selfish" or arrogant.

Well, our public-school "graduates" are now voters, and their socialist-indoctrinated mind-set now attracts them to Democrats like moths to a flame.
God help this country, because public schools turn out millions of these child-adults who haven't the faintest conception about the values this
country was founded on, or have little respect or contempt for those values.

Parents, for your children's sake, walk away from the public schools. Also, don't depend on vouchers or charter schools, which are few and far
between. Take control of your children's education and the values you teach them by homeschooling your kids or enrolling them in a low-cost Internet
private school of your choice. Your children's future is at stake, and so is, by the way, the future of our Republic and our liberties.

Originally posted by texas thinker
So we may be witnessing the final death throes of the great American Dream. Some day I may be telling my grand kids about the old free America over a
cup of government issued coffee missing my cigarettes from when they were still legal, doing so because I do not wish to watch government controlled
television content or read the Fed daily newspaper.
For those of us such as myself that cringe over such thoughts we better figure out how to turn our current direction around and get back to real
American fundementals and break the chain of power from the Bushes, the Obamas, the Kennedy's and the Rockerfellers. This is OUR country dammit!.

I think we all know what needs to be done. We need to remove the cancer and find a way to place healthy tissue in its place. Then we need to cut
away the fat (lobbyist, conflicts of interest, ect.) and make sure the Govt. doesn't forget who it serves and why. I think we also need to pull a
fight club on the media just so they understand if they don't like America the way it is, they can go to any one of the countries that think like
they do.

TT I've had a thought, and it's not a happy thought, that I should have been keeping a journal of all that I have seen here during the election and
early Obama administration, cause one day when I have kids/grandkids what they will learn in their history books will be nothing like what actually
happened.

TT I've had a thought, and it's not a happy thought, that I should have been keeping a journal of all that I have seen here during the election and
early Obama administration, cause one day when I have kids/grandkids what they will learn in their history books will be nothing like what actually
happened.

[edit on 2-3-2009 by AnonymousMoose]

Well then if we want the history books to be correct then we had better do something. I mean, look at all the other crap we have to fix in those
books, might as well sort this one out before we have to sort out another falsity.

At this point most will agree, something big is brewing underneath the surface of this country. The general public is waking up, Zbigniew Brzezinski
said it himself. And they are afraid of it. That
awakening is the fly in their ointment. Look how we are now hearing that Iran could build a nuke in the MSM. The propaganda machine is going back to
full gear, but you know what? I don't think it will work this time. The spell of fear is dying and they can't bring it back.

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